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A resource developed by Jackie Miers for the eTeacher event designed to celebrate and support the Butterfly Conservation South Australia's "Bring the Butterflies Back to Adelaide Campaign", to be launched in July, 2007. |
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Bring the butterflies back to Adelaide
eTeacher event -
This event has been designed to raise the
awareness of teachers and students in urban Adelaide schools
of the
need to protect butterfly habitats and to encourage them to
create butterfly gardens. It will engage students in
investigating the features, behaviours and life cycle of
butterflies, in particular Adelaide butterflies, so that they
develop understandings about the relationships between living
things, themselves, and the natural environment.
Bring the Butterflies back to Adelaide Campaign - Butterfly Conservation South Australia has developed an awareness campaign to bring butterflies back to Adelaide urban gardens. They have been promoting the growing of butterfly food plants to local community groups and in July 2007 during National Tree Day, they will launch the campaign to the general public. Butterfly Watch Program - This program is seeking the support of the general public to provide information about our local butterflies by recording which plants, particularly native plants, that the adult butterflies are feeding on and where butterfly colonies exist. The anticipated outcome will be a comprehensive list of native South Australian plants that attract adult butterflies for distribution to gardeners. The public is encouraged to try their photographic skills and photograph the butterfly and plant. Photos will be exhibited at the South Australian Museum butterfly exhibition in October and November 2007.A Butterfly Watch Form for recording sightings is provided on the Museum website. |
